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What AI Gives Zero Thought to
1 day ago
AI talking to Humans talking to AI
2 days ago
This is How I do it
2 days ago
The Ownership in Your Work
3 days ago
The Leaders You Need
4 days ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
5 days ago
Your Best Team Culture
1 week ago
A Blistering Pace
1 week ago
Get Out of the Way
2 weeks ago
Flying Cars
AI does not care about optics or politics. It only cares about delivery. AI does not care about how you are feeling today. It only cares about starting the task, making adjustments to the task and finishing the task. AI does not care about who is at the water cooler and what they were talking about. It cares about who it needs to get information from for the next project to be successful. AI isn’t perfect, and it does get it wrong, but the thing it gets right is focusing on the task, what is being delivered to the end …
AI talking to Humans talking to AI
Greg Thomas
AI-masked conversations to humans are massively on the rise. A number of times over the past month, I’ll get… “Well, Claude says…” “Well, Copilot gave me this…” “Well, here is what Gemini came up with…” Yes, of course, that is what it said, but what is your spin? What is your input? What is your context to the issue at hand? Give me your flavour and thoughts around what AI came back with. Either that or just pull me into the chat with your AI. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook …
2 days ago
This is How I do it
Greg Thomas
When someone says “this is how I do it” – they aren’t asking for input; they are definitely not asking for advice or feedback on how they do their job. They are simply saying, “This is how I do it,” and the corollary, which is “Deal with it.” They don’t say the “Deal with it,” but it’s implied, and you need to figure out how to work around it or with it. It’s an odd statement, because anyone can pull up an AI agent and ask for the best path to do a job, and 70% of the time, there …
Flying Cars
Woot! Woot! Flying Cars are here; they came in my lifetime. This is great news. Love it. I still am not big on flying, so not sure I want to be strapped to an even smaller vehicle twisting and turning through the air. That’s awesome, great news. Now if only I didn’t get prompted 20 times a day by Authenticator, that would be progress. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 weeks ago
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
What you build, how you design work- these things all matter when building a software solution (yes, even today in the age of AI) – because I think, for the most part, we all want our work to stand the test of time. In order for your work to stand the test of time, it needs one very important thing backing it. What is the problem you are trying to solve? If you can’t condense that down to one sentence, then it doesn’t matter what you have designed; I know you don’t understand what you are designing it for, and …
2 weeks ago
Where are we?
In any movie, when our intrepid team is trying to solve the latest problem in front of them, what do they do? They take stock of where they are, they lay all their equipment out, they throw away all pretense and nonsense, and simply ask the question – “Where are we?” If you are not doing this with your team, if you are masking this question around ideals and hopes and not wanting to rock the boat, then you are letting your team down. Where are we is the most important question you need to be asking your team. Want …